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Maungdaw, Arakan State: A group of Rakhine youths accompanied by army personnel attacked and looted a bride-party vehicle while it was on Maungdaw-Aley Than Kyaw Highway of Maungdaw Township October 4, said a local villager. “Rakhine youths and a group of army stopped the vehicle near Horsara village and attacked it when the bride-party was returning from Nolbona (Pandawpin) village. The Rakhine Natala villagers are from Horsara Natala village and the army is from a nearby camp.”

Indonesia to provide housing for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim population. Photo: UNHCR /S. Kritsanavarin BANGKOK: Four months after inter-communal violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) continues to rise, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday, adding that some 75,000 people are currently living in camps and many more are in need of humanitarian assistance. “Movement is still restricted in parts of Rakhine state, preventing some villagers from going to work, accessing markets, food supplies, health services and education,” a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Adrian Edwards, told reporters in Geneva. “Out of desperation, people are leaving villages to seek food and medical assistance at the IDP camps.”

UNHCR has distributed relief supplies to tens of thousands of people in communities affected by the unrest in Rakhine state. Photo: UNHCR Myanmar  5 October 2012 – Four months after inter-communal violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) continues to rise, the United Nations refugee agency  said  today, adding that some 75,000 people are currently living in camps and many more are in need of humanitarian assistance. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State:   British ambassadors Mr. Andrew Heyn accompanied by two others are still going to their fact finding  program  in Maungdaw Township  to see real struggle and situation in detail of  Rohingya  in  northern Arakan. They arrived at Maungdaw on October 3, said a local leader on condition of anonymity.

By MAUNG ZARNI Policemen carry their weapons during fighting between Arakanese and Rohingya communities in  Sittwe, Arakan state. (Reuters)  Following this summer’s rioting in western Burma, all eyes have been fixed on the government’s handling of the unrest in Rakhine state. With external pressure mounting, most specifically from the Islamic world, Burmese officials – from President Thein Sein in Naypyidaw to local security troops in western Burma – have been playing ostensibly the “humanist and humanitarian” card with the Rohingya. 

posted on October 4, 2012 by Mohiuddin Yusof                                                           Rohingya refugees (Credit: UNHCR)  United to End Genocide interviewed Mr. Mohiuddin M. Yusof, President of Rohingya Concern International, to learn more about the current crisis facing Burma’s Rohingya people following the outbreak of deadly violence in Arakan State this past June.  Can you talk about what is happening right now in Burma’s Arakan State? 

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the crowds gathered at the University of San Francisco to greet Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi last week was a small coterie of Muslim and Burmese activists. They were there not to celebrate the visit by the veteran human rights campaigner but to press her on one burning question.